Directions to BHSU Summer Stage

All performances are held in the new Black Box Theatre on the 3rd floor of Woodburn Hall.

Take W Jackson Blvd to Jonas Blvd, Jonas Blvd to Yellow Jacket Ln, Yellow Jacket Ln to the Faculty Parking Lot. The cart will pick you up there or follow the yellow curb sidewalk to Woodburn. The Black Box is on the 3rd floor.

Summer Stage 2017

Performing in the NEW Woodburn Black Box Theatre

LEADING LADIES

June 1-3 at 7:30 PM & June 4 at 2:30 PM

Written by Ken Ludwig

The play focuses on two English Shakespearean actors Jack and Leo who find their careers in a rut. When Leo finds an article in the newspaper that a dying woman in York, Pennsylvania wants to leave her fortune to her two long-lost English family members, the actors decide to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives to get the inheritance. Hilarity ensues when the two missing relatives are in fact nieces and not nephews leaving Jack and Leo to put on their best performance yet, disguising themselves undercover in drag.

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS

June 8-10 at 7:30 PM & June 11 at 2:30 PM
June 15-17 at 7:30 PM and June 18 at 2:30 PM

Playwrights: Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, & Marshal Barer

Music: Mary Rodgers

Lyricist: Marshall Barer

After a curse that leaves King Sextimus mute, Queen Aggravain takes control of the kingdom. She wants to keep her son Prince Dauntless single and had declared that only the Prince Dauntless does. This is troublesome for Lady Larken and Sir Harry because Lady Larken in now pregnant. Luckily Prince Dauntless meets Winnifred the Woebegone, a feisty and out-spoken princess from the swamp lands. If Winnifred can pass the Queen's test, then perhaps the Kingdom can marry once again.

THE 39 STEPS

June 22-24 at 7:30 PM & June 25 at 2:30

Written/Adapted by Patrick Barlow

Adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock, this fast-paced whodunit is sure to entertain all audiences. Our story follows a man with a boring life, Richard Hannay, who's life suddenly gets much more interesting when a woman tells him that she's a secret agent. It's not long until she's suddenly murdered leaving a mysterious organization called the 39 Steps pursuing Richard Hanny on a nationwide manhunt that ends with a grand finale.